The 5 Dumbest Products In America, Circa 1977

It's 1977 and you've got a potentially world-changing semiconductor on your hands - but how do you market the thing? By trashing toasters, telephones, cars and especially TVs, which are so dumb they don't even pay your taxes! (What?)

At least that's how National Semi envisioned the televisions of tomorrow: tax-paying, child-rearing futureboxes. Come to think of it, I'm not sure my toaster can distinguish between a bagel and an English muffin yet, either. [Modern Mechanics — thanks to our pal Anna atJezebel]